ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 6, 2018: The session hall of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; on 6 December 2018, the court is to announce its decision on a border agreement, which was signed by the leaders of Russia's Republic of Ingushetia and Russia's Chechen Republic in September 2018; the border hadn't been clearly defined since the break-up of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991; according to the new agreement, Ingushetia and Chechnya are to swap uninhabited territories in Chechnya's Nadterechny District and Ingushetia's Sunzha District; the issue was referred to the Constitutional Court of Russia by the leader of Ingushetia. Peter Kovalev/TASS
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The separatist leaders of four Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine say they are planning to hold votes starting later this week for the territories to become part of Russia as Moscow loses ground in the war it launched.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that were condemned by Kyiv and governments worldwide, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, September 30, 2022. Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya raises his hand against a U.N. Security Council vote on a draft resolution sanctioning Russia’s planned annexation of war-occupied Ukraine territory, Friday Sept. 30, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
